What implements do I need?

As to Glyphosate/Roundup compared to Rodeo, look for the primary ingredient in both. Rodeo-glyphosate.

These are no TOYS. My Savage monster truck is 1/6th scale (after my ext chassis and offset rims), does around 55mph, 3 speed auto tranny, and can easily do double back flips, land in horrendous ways and keep coming back for more. My engine is a Picco .28, RATED (actually higher) at 3.8 HP. My truck weighs around 14lbs.
My buggy is a Hyper 7 PBS PCR with a Picco .27
The buggy does 45 easy and it is a single speed, if I went with the 2 speed (alot harder on the difs because it eliminates the center dif), and regear it, I could do 70 EASY. My onroad car does appx 60 stock.
You think these are toys? I wish I had the link for the video. One of my good friends designed and made OTB gears for the older (now defunct basically) Traxxas T-maxx. The only aluminum 2 speed gearset ever made for the tmaxx. He also designed the infinity gearset which makes it possible to gear the tranny VERY low. So low infact, he pulled an S-10 with it. Sand in the tires, and a Rowdy C-5 engine did it. I'm sure most of you still consider these toys, but oh well. I still enjpy the board and most of you guys =)

I will probably try a different drag, not quite sure what I'll do yet really. What does a scraper do? Could propbably use one for maintenance.

You may not want the grass but the roller would definately help.

You want the ground firm, so if it is close to level now, you wouldn't want to tear it up & start over - long process if you do.

How big is this area going to be?

--->Paul

I was told there is a similar product called Rodeo.
Made by the same company that makes RoundUp.
And it is safe for use around water.
I haven't found it yet. Still looking.

This year I got tired of looking at the weeds that
were taking over our well house so I just went
ahead and sprayed around it with RoundUp.
Hnave't had any porlbms yet form it.

If you look at the ingrediants and think about it,
RoundUp is just salt and vinegar with a cohesion agent added.
Monsanto just happened to find the best kind of
salt and proportion of vinegar and cohesion agent
to make it work really well.

You can make the stuff at home using 20% vinegar.
The vinegar you buy at the store is a 5% solution.
You can get a 20% solution at a good garden supply.
Saturate it with salt and add a bit of liquid soap.
Mix it all up good and start spraying it.
The salt and vinegar kill the weeds, and the liquid
soap makes it stick to the plants better.
It's a very old weed killing recipe.

Of course 20% vinegar cost about the same as generic
RoundUp. So you can't save money this way.
But it may make you feel better knowing just
what it is you're actually spraying on your yard.

Pooh Bear

--->Paul

As long as you are using phosphate free soap for
your home made RoundUp you should be fine.

Pooh Bear

I saw a guy this summer using a welded up grid of rebar on his horse track. He tows this behind his tractor, and the roughness of the rebar tears the grass to shreds. He had this about 10' x 10' and pulling it behind about 20 hp tractor. I watched as he did this and the rebar was dragging enough soil to fill any pot holes. It was tearing any grass to shreds as well. I though it worked as well as anything I've seen for grass control on roadways. The rebar was about 1" diameter. I expect it takes that much weight to work well.

Jay, I would be willing to bet someone you know has an ATV and would be willing to ride it around and around on your track as needed. Use the loader to build a few hills and valleys. Pulling something like a box spring or a horseowners chain drag would level out any big lumps. The last couple times around don't pull anything to let the wheels smooth out the surface. A track for one ATV could be wide enough to race several RC cars.